over the weekend, i was again reminded of the fragility of life and the closeness of death. you see, yesterday, i visited my mum (after the visit to the columbarium) and as i was making my way home, the traffic advance warning board on kje reads "pie... massive jam..." or something to that effect. with the early warning, i took the tpe route home instead.
in the afternoon, i received an sms from an friend of mine telling me that his coursemate had died in a motorbike mishap. and from the facebook status update of another one of their coursemate, i realised that the jam that i had earlier avoided was the one that killed him. accordingly, he had only recently lamented that owning a car was too expensive these days and had just bought the bike as a birthday present for himself last week. he had only celebrated his birthday couple of days ago. and now... it was sad. this is the second student of mine to die in recent few months. one of cancer and now another one in a traffic mishap.
so, once again, i was reminded of how fragile life is. and how fine the line between life and death is. how one can literally be talking to you one day and the next, lying down for good. the family collected him from the mortuary this morning and buried him this afternoon. i did not visit as it is still less than a year since my dad's passing and thought it would not be very appropriate to attend such events. nonetheless, he was in my mind at the hour the burial took place.
may he rest in peace.
in the afternoon, i received an sms from an friend of mine telling me that his coursemate had died in a motorbike mishap. and from the facebook status update of another one of their coursemate, i realised that the jam that i had earlier avoided was the one that killed him. accordingly, he had only recently lamented that owning a car was too expensive these days and had just bought the bike as a birthday present for himself last week. he had only celebrated his birthday couple of days ago. and now... it was sad. this is the second student of mine to die in recent few months. one of cancer and now another one in a traffic mishap.
so, once again, i was reminded of how fragile life is. and how fine the line between life and death is. how one can literally be talking to you one day and the next, lying down for good. the family collected him from the mortuary this morning and buried him this afternoon. i did not visit as it is still less than a year since my dad's passing and thought it would not be very appropriate to attend such events. nonetheless, he was in my mind at the hour the burial took place.
may he rest in peace.
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